Logical Thoughts For the Best Line

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Dealer: East
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA K Q 4
  2. heartK 10 8
  3. diamondJ 10 3
  4. clubA 8 3
  1. spade9 7 5 3 2
  2. heart3
  3. diamondK 7 6 5
  4. clubK Q 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 1 6 6 4 5
S 1 6 6 4 5
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade8 6
  2. heartQ 9 6 4
  3. diamond4
  4. clubJ 10 9 7 6 5

Contract: 6heart
Declarer: South
Lead: clubK
  1. spadeJ 10
  2. heartA J 7 5 2
  3. diamondA Q 9 8 2
  4. club4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass 1heart
Pass 2spade Pass 3diamond
Pass 3heart Pass 4diamond
Pass 5club Pass 6heart
End
Simply because you have a chance of picking up heartQ9xx in East's hand - if that was West's holding success would not be possible without guesswork. Say you led heartJ, covered, and returned to spadeJ to lead another heart. Do you finesse the eight, playing West for heart9xx, and risk losing to heart9 in East's hand?!

So, win clubA, cash heartK and run the ten. You've got him whether he covers or not. Assuming East does cover, you will be able to cross back to dummy with a spade, run heart8, return to hand with a spade (best) or diamondA to draw the last trump. You can now force out diamondK while still retaining a trump in hand.
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